Today's News

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barrick, Jr., announce the engagement of their daughter Heather Dawn Barrick to Joseph Bronson Puckett, son of Barbara Puckett and the late Sidney Bronson Puckett.
The bride is a 1996 Anderson County High School graduate and attended Eastern Kentucky University. She graduated from business college with a degree in office administration.

50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25, 1962
The Anderson Future Farmers of America chapter received the National Superior Chapter Award for the year 1962.
The National Chapter Awards Program is designed to give recognition to local FFA chapters in accomplishing outstanding programs of activities and in providing valuable educational experiences for the entire membership.
The awards are based upon the degree of achievement of local chapters in meeting approved standards and in carrying out an outstanding program of work.

EKU student joins NOVA program
Heather Cheek of Lawrenceburg, a freshman family and consumer sciences education major, is among the 206 participants in Eastern Kentucky University’s NOVA program, which serves students with academic potential who are the first in their family to pursue a four-year degree, according to a news release.

Change is here when it comes to state testing in Kentucky.
Educators across the commonwealth, including Anderson County Superintendent Sheila Mitchell and Instructional Supervisor Sharon Jackman, are preparing for the results of the new state assessment model designed to emphasize academic rigor and college and career readiness.
Preparations include sending home letters to students’ families and showing instructional videos to staff in anticipation of the new test data Anderson County educators have never seen before.

The Marching Bearcats want their competitors to think they’re still underdogs.
In reality, band director Patrick Brady said, the 83-member band has adopted the same message as its superhero-themed “My Secret Identity” program:
They will rise to the occasion. And Anderson County will beat you.

By Meaghan Downs
News staff
Thanks to a unanimous vote of school board, the Regional Training Center will remain at its current location on Main Street and pay a $12,000 annual rental contract to the building’s new owner, the Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg, which earlier this year bought it for $75,100. That means in six years and four months, RTC will have paid as much in rent as the Academy spent to purchase the building, if it rents for that length of time.